Chemical Chart:
BY E. L. YOUMANS.
On Rollers, 5 feet by 6 in size. New Edition. Price $5.
This popular work accomplishes for the first time, for Chemistry, what maps and charts have for geography, geology, and astronomy, by presenting a new and valuable mode of illustration. Its plan is to represent chemical composition to the eye by colored diagrams, so that numerous facts of proportion, structure, and relation, which are the most difficult in the science, are presented to the mind through the medium of the eye, and may thus be easily acquired and long retained. The want of such a chart has long been felt by the thoughtful teacher, and no other scientific publication that has ever emanated from the American press has met with the universal favor that has been accorded to this Chart. In the language of a distinguished chemist, "Its appearance marks an era in the progress of the popularization of Chemistry."
It illustrates the nature of elements, compounds, affinity, definite and multiple proportions, acids, bases, salts, the salt-radical theory, double decomposition, deoxidation, combustion and illumination, isomerism, compound radicals, and the composition of the proximate principles of food. It covers the whole field of Agricultural Chemistry, and is invaluable as an aid to public lecturers, to teachers in class-room recitation, and for reference in the family. The mode of using it is explained in the class-book.
From the late Horace Mann, President of Antioch College.
I think Mr. Youmans is entitled to great credit for the preparation of his Chart, because its use will not only facilitate acquisition, but, what is of far greater importance, will increase the exactness and precision of the student's elementary ideas.
From Dr. John W. Draper, Professor of Chemistry in the University of N. Y.
Mr. Youmans' Chart seems to me well adapted to communicate to beginners a knowledge of the definite combinations of chemical substances, and as a preliminary to the use of symbols, to aid them very much in the recollection of the examples it contains. It deserves to be introduced into the schools.
From James B. Rogers, Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.
We cordially subscribe to the opinion of Professor Draper concerning the value to beginners of Mr. Youmans' Chemical Chart.
JOHN TORREY,
Professor of Chemistry in the College of Physicians & Surgeons, N. Y.WM. H. ELLET,
Late Professor of Chemistry in Columbia College, S. C.JAMES B. ROGERS,
Professor of Chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.
From Benjamin Silliman, LL. D., Professor of Chemistry in Yale College.
I have hastily examined Mr. Youmans' New Chemical Diagrams or Chart of chemical combinations by the union of the elements in atomic proportions. The design appears to be an excellent one.
[History of Philosophy.]
A History of Philosophy:
AN EPITOME.
BY DR. ALBERT SCHWEGLER.
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL GERMAN, BY JULIUS H. SEELYE.
12mo. 365 pages. Price $1 25.
This translation is designed to supply a want long felt by both teachers and students in our American colleges. We have valuable histories of Philosophy in English, but no manual on this subject so clear, concise, and comprehensive as the one now presented. Schwegler's work bears the marks of great learning, and is evidently written by one who has not only studied the original sources for such a history, but has thought out for himself the systems of which he treats. He has thus seized upon the real germ of each system, and traced its process of development with great clearness and accuracy. The whole history of speculation, from Thales to the present time, is presented in its consecutive order. This rich and important field of study, hitherto so greatly neglected, will, it is hoped, receive a new impulse among American students through Mr. Seelye's translation. It is a book, moreover, invaluable for reference, and should be in the possession of every public and private library.
From L. P. Hickok, Vice-President of Union College.
"I have had opportunity to hear a large part of Rev. Mr. Seelye's translation of Schwegler's History of Philosophy read from manuscript, and I do not hesitate to say that it is a faithful, clear, and remarkably precise English rendering of this invaluable Epitome of the History of Philosophy. It is exceedingly desirable that it should be given to American students of philosophy in the English language, and I have no expectation of its more favorable and successful accomplishment than in this present attempt. I should immediately introduce it as a text-book in the graduate's department under my own instruction, if it be favorably published, and cannot doubt that other teachers will rejoice to avail themselves of the like assistance from it."
From Henry B. Smith, Professor of Christian Theology, Union Theological Seminary, N. Y.
"It will well reward diligent study, and is one of the best works for a text-book in our colleges upon this neglected branch of scientific investigation."
From N. Porter, Professor of Intellectual Philosophy in Yale College.
"It is the only book translated from the German which professes to give an account of the recent German systems which seems adapted to give any intelligible information on the subject to a novice."
From Geo. P. Fisher, Professor of Divinity in Yale College.
"It is really the best Epitome of the History of Philosophy now accessible to the English student."
From Joseph Haven, Professor of Mental Philosophy in Amherst College.
"As a manual and brief summary of the whole range of speculative inquiry, I know of no work which strikes me more favorably."
[Moral Philosophy.]
Elements of Moral Philosophy:
ANALYTICAL, SYNTHETICAL, AND PRACTICAL.
BY HUBBARD WINSLOW.
12mo. 480 pages. Price $1 25.
This work is an original and thorough examination of the fundamental laws of Moral Science, and of their relations to Christianity and to practical life. It has already taken a firm stand among our highest works of literature and science. From the numerous commendations of it by our most learned and competent men, we have room for only the following brief extracts:
From the Rev. Thomas H. Skinner, D. D., of the Union Theol. Sem., N. Y.
"It is a work of uncommon merit, on a subject very difficult to be treated well. His analysis is complete. He has shunned no question which his purpose required him to answer, and he has met no adversary which he has not overcome."
From Rev. L. P. Hickok, Vice-President of Union College.
"I deem the book well adapted to the ends proposed in the preface. The style is clear, the thoughts perspicuous. I think it calculated to do good, to promote the truth, to diffuse light, and impart instruction to the community, in a department of study of the deepest interest to mankind."
From Rev. James Walker, D. D., President of Harvard University.
"Having carefully examined the more critical parts, to which my attention has been especially directed, I am free to express my conviction of the great clearness, discrimination, and accuracy of the work, and of its admirable adaptation to its object."
From Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., of Albany.
"I have examined this work with great pleasure, and do not hesitate to say that in my judgment it is greatly superior to any treatise I have seen, in all the essential requisites of a good text-book."
From Prof. Rousseau D. Hitchcock, D. D., of Union Theol. Sem., N. Y.
"The task of mediating between science and the popular mind, is one that requires a peculiar gift of perspicuity, both in thought and style; and this, I think, the author possesses in an eminent degree. I am pleased with its comprehensiveness, its plainness, and its fidelity to the Christian stand-point."
From Prof. Henry B. Smith, D. D., of the Union Theol. Sem., N. Y.
"It commends itself by its clear arrangement of the topics, its perspicuity of language, and its constant practical bearings. I am particularly pleased with its views of conscience. Its frequent and pertinent illustrations, and the Scriptural character of its explanations of the particular duties, will make the work both attractive and valuable as a text-book, in imparting instruction upon this vital part of philosophy."
From W. D. Wilson, D. D., Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy in Hobart Free College.
"I have examined the work with care, and have adopted it as a text-book in the study of Moral Science. I consider it not only sound in doctrine, but clear and systematic in method, and withal pervaded with a prevailing healthy tone of sentiment, which cannot fail to leave behind, in addition to the truths it inculcates, an impression in favor of those truths. I esteem this one of the greatest merits of the book. In this respect it has no equal, so far as I know; and I do not hesitate to speak of it as being preferable to any other work yet published, for use in all institutions where Moral Philosophy forms a department in the course of instruction."
[Transcribers' Notes:]
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced quotation marks retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
This text spells "gauge" as "guage" in all but one instance; none changed here.
Page [34]: "by a break put on" perhaps should be "brake".
Page [40]: "conveyed upwards fourteen" probably should be "conveyed upwards of fourteen".
Page [70]: "the prepare surfaced" probably is a misprint for "surface".
Page [83]: "re-agents" was printed that way.
Page [197]: "distil" was printed that way.
Page [208]: "metropolitian" was printed that way.